Suggestions for laptop with Microsoft Office

Fufu3333

Do you have any recommendations for a good reasonably priced laptop which has Microsoft Office installed just for everyday general use?  Or do laptops not come with Office these days?  

I am looking for one brand new, reasonably priced under £300 laptop (not refurbished). I believe 8GB ram is ideal?

Thank you

MikeJXE

I believe most laptops (except Mac) come with office 365 which carries a subscription

Keep_pedalling

Also consider one of the free office suites such as LibraOffice. Thy it before subscribing to MSO.

Heedtheadvice

Whether getting office 365 by subscription or not, every Microsoft operating system user, when registered with an account, gets to use the free online office suite for FREE.

Downloaded office 365 suite ( installed on your computer) is useful if you want to use office when offline  ( and I understand has more facilities ). It also costs you a monthly or annual subscription.

DullGreyGuy

MikeJXE said:

I believe most laptops (except Mac) come with office 365 which carries a subscription

All laptops, including Mac, can use the free online version of Office. 

If you want to pay for the annual subscription to Office 365 then you can for both Windows and Mac though the software won't be pre-installed on a Mac. Only some of the fringe apps like Visio and Project dont have a Mac desktop app. 

There are plenty of other applications that are compatible with Office that dont require a subscription. You can buy a standalone version of Office that doesn't require a subscription but haven't seen a computer come with it as standard.

Fufu3333 said:

I believe 8GB ram is ideal?

I would say that 8GB of ram is the minimum but probably is sufficient for your needs if you are just doing home use Office and web browsing. If your manipulating large amounts of data with VBA in Excel or wanting to do video editing etc then I'd consider 16GB (which as of this year is the minimum Macs now come with)

Mr.Generous

Another alternative is buy the laptop you want, uninstall office 365 and buy office from gamers-outlet.net  where just about any version of office plus license is available for download - just an example pick whatever you want. This is the total cost, no annual subscription - start from less than £3

jshm2

To be honest, few new £300 models are worth the price. You're better to get a second hand 3-5 year old business laptop instead. More sturdy as well. 

As for office, you will often find it installed. But you can get a cheap single pc key from ebay 

outtatune

Office Pro Plus is not available to buy standalone. It's the version that corporations get through volume licensing deals.

So just be aware that if you 'buy' one of these it's very possible that the company who owns the licence will identify that your laptop does not belong to them and ask Microsoft to block it.

twopenny

Depends on what you want it for.

Having looked recently I saw a number of laptops on the Argos website (didn't look elsewhere) and many had a years worth of M Office free then you subscribe.

That means that you have all your docs there so you are compelled to keep them by subscribing or loose them.

Cisco001

Best to go for used business laptop for reliability...
Example £275 @ CEX

Lenovo L14 Gen 3/i5-1245U/8GB Ram/256GB SSD/14"/W11/B

New laptop £300 based on spec

Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 3 15.6" Laptop - AMD Ryzen™ 5, 512GB SSD, 8 GB RAM - Grey

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Fufu3333

Thanks all, will probably buy a version of office online and download to new laptop.